From: ted.dunning@gmail.com   
      
   stevey wrote:   
   > Dear AI enthusiasts,   
   >   
   > I was excited about finding this group and joined immediately.   
   > I'm an engineer devoted to promoting best practice for PV -the academic   
   >   
   > name for solar electric generation.   
   >   
   > Can anyone give me some guidance on building a diagnostic system for   
   > solar- photovoltaics?   
   >   
   >  I'm exploring applying Expert Systems and other AI technologies to the   
   > real-time monitoring and analysis-diagnostics of solar (PV) system   
   > performance; also utilizing real-time measurement and a  data ware   
   > house of 15-minute system parameter logs.   
   >   
   >   
   > Thanks,   
   > Steve Yang, E.E.   
   >   
      
   How complicated can the diagnosis be?  There aren't really a huge   
   number of interactions here.   
      
   If the systems you are talking about are as simple as it seems at first   
   glance, you can probably use almost any technique at all to get a   
   working diagnostic system.   
      
   The hard part will be configuring your diagnostic system for a   
   particular installation.  Even that should be pretty easily handled by   
   a drag and drop system diagram tool.  Some drawing programs can even be   
   configured with magic properties so that as you connect pieces, they   
   can execute simple code.  That might avoid even the need to build a GUI   
   for your system.   
      
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